YMCA Services Celebrate 75 Years of Maine Camp
More than 200 boys from Maine sections attend the State YMCA Camp at Winthrop for a chapel service marking the 75th anniversary of YMCA camping. Camp director W David Dellert says Norman J Temple, former camp director, will speak at the 11 am service. Temple served 1948–1953 and now works for Central Maine Power. The YMCA began organized camping for boys, with the first group of seven from Newburgh NY. Maine’s camp at Lake Cobbesseecontee was founded 44 years ago. Jefferson C was founder and long-time director.
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Plans Completed For Saco Fair And Horse Show
Members of Saco Grange and the Saco Valley Riding and Driving Club met at the Unity club in Saco to finalize plans for the Unity club fair grounds event. The fair and horse show run Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. led by general chairman Mrs Lillian Hubert and club president Mrs Avis Nickerson, with 35 members in attendance.
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Oldest Civil War Vet Walter Williams Fading in Houston
P Walter Williams, the nation’s oldest veteran and last Civil War survivor in Houston, is weakened daily by illness. The 116 year old recently recovered from pneumonia but remains frail, according to his doctors.
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Obituary fragment notes death of Uncle Jeff Smith
The notice references Uncle Jeff Smith who died earlier in the year and lists other directors including his son Kenneth, an executive at George Williams College in Chicago, Chester A. Baker, Calvin Martin a former Portland YMCA secretary and now alumni secretary at Temple College, and Dellert.
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